Wow! That's such a sweet building Tom!!


Can't remember if you had a lift in your old place or not.... if not... you'll think you're in heaven the next time you want to do something on the cars! A lift FTW!!


Siding to match the house??

It looks good Tom. Nice shade for a quick fix outside when the garage id full.

We finally gave up on the clowns who did the leaky metal roof. Originally they were going to do the siding too, but after eleven months of trying to get them back to fix the roof leaks we gave up. A friend pointed me in the direction of a place about two hours south that builds complete pole barns but were willing to send a crew up to do the siding because they had a little time between jobs. They agreed to address the roof leaks, but not take responsibility for the roof. Fair enough. Turns out the crew was a handful of Mennonites that were hard working and honest. We really hit it off and since Sam and I were working on the roofing of the canopy the same time they were there they taught us quite a bit. Techniques mostly but the bottom line is, until you have done something for a living you just don't know the tricks of the trade.

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Sam and I working on the roof. It kept sleeting so that was a little entertaining...
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Just about every leak in the roof can be attributed to the first crew not sinking the screws. This is just an example, some were much worse than this. The siding guys took care of almost all the leaks, but the ones they missed we'll have sorted out in a week or so.
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Thanks Greg! Kind of matches the house, but kinda not... Remember we're hillbillies from Mooresville, Indiana, not everything has to match. :lostmarbles:

We did have a lift in the old shop, but much smaller and lower roof. It became "necessary" after hernia surgery a few years ago.

Thanks Wayne, we already like the outside cover the most. Going to be real nice on those spring, fall and not so hot summer days with a breeze.

Now tha'st how you do it, great job Tom !

Tom, sweet dream shop...nice lift, congrats on a great job.

Lookin' good! It has been a struggle for me to pay others to do work that I know I could probably do myself, but after having a few successful jobs done by others...... I'm becoming a fan of letting others do some of this stuff! It allows us more time to focus on working on cars!!!! ;)

That looks great Tom. The first thing I thought of were the leaks in the roof once you had someone do the siding. Glad to hear they took care of most of it.
The comment about "Remember we're hillbillies from Mooresville, Indiana, not everything has to match"
My son in law is from Indiana and my daughter is always teasing him about not matching my grandson's clothes when he dresses him for daycare.
Glad to see its all working out.

Looks great Tom!

Building takes forever - we signed the contract on my new house back before Thanksgiving - we are just now getting footers in!

Thanks for posting the update pics, looks like it's really coming along. Soon you'll get to spend more time working in the building than on the building...

Nothing too exciting has been going on with the shop, but my siding guys are getting ready to come out and finish up some trim work so I can finally get the city inspection completed. We are working inside on different projects constantly so here is the only real picture of anything going on.

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How's the arm Tom? I hope you coming along.

Getting better everyday. Physical therapy twice a week and exercises at home three times a day seems to be helping a lot. Good as new in no time! (Rotator cuff and biceps tendon surgery on my shoulder the beginning of September for those that are wondering)

Great to hear! My wife was looking over my shoulder when I saw the picture of your garage. I said now that's a well equipped garage, She said and when are you going to finish yours :twak: Open mouth insert foot!

Nice to see the square-body Burb peeking two of its four eyes into the pic! ;)

We need to get right on that as soon as we get my buddies Chevelle done and out of the shop. Will also be starting a build thread for the Burb on all our favorite sites even though it's not really pro-touring.

Here's the long overdue update on the shop. We've definitely kept plugging away but once the outside was sealed up and it became more usable working on projects took priority.

Back in January we hooked up the wood stove. It worked pretty well, but when the temps were in the single digits and the ceiling wasn't complete it was hard to feel the positive effects of anything from more than 10' away.

Double wall stainless chimney pipe isn't cheap!
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Where there is smoke, there is fire.
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The biggest thing that has happened is the finishing of the metal ceiling in the main shop area and the lights. We went with the T5HO six lamp fluorescent fixtures. I found a place on ebay that would sell the American made fixtures for $92 each including freight. Lots of money, but the lighting is amazing so I will say that it was money well spent. I hope it's not necessary next winter, but they function well even below 0*.
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The lights in the "machine" area are just porcelain fixtures with 100w incadecent bulbs. Now that we have "real" light in the rest of the shop these will have to go and be replaced with four 4 bulb T5HO fixtures.
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looks great!, what is up with that Chevy truck? I love those!

That's a 1985 Suburban 4x4 that I bought off of another Pro-Touring Chevelle guy, Herb Lumpp. It's an Arizona truck and crazy solid. It runs and drives but I'm putting a mild 350 with a Holley EFI together for it just for dependability. One of these days I'm going to start a thread on it even though it's not really Pro-Touring.

Looking good Tom!

I bet it will be much nicer with the heat in there!